The self-healing mechanisms of bacterial cementitious materials via novel isolated ureolytic bacterium species See

The self-healing approach used in this study is based on the urease hydrolysing bacterium, namely, Bacillus Sphaericus. The scope of the work is diverse as it combines and brings together both aspects of the bioengineering and civil engineering in order to provide better understand...

Transcranial direct current stimulation for upper and lower limb motor function in young people with Cerebral Palsy: a randomised controlled pilot study See

Purpose: Cerebral Palsy (CP) is the commonest cause of childhood motor disability. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a promising adjuvant therapy, but research targeting upper and lower limbs simultaneously is needed. We aimed to pilot tDCS with upper/lower limb m...

The Effectiveness of Physical Activity and Nutrition Interventions for Children and Adolescents With Cerebral Palsy to Improve Physical Health and Cognitive Outcomes: A Systematic Review See

Purpose: Using systematic review methodology, we set out to describe the evidence for physical activity and nutrition interventions for children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) as compared with no intervention or exposure that reports physical health and cognitive outcomes. Method: ...

Ex vivo expanded human regulatory T cells promote cholesterol efflux and PON1 expression in oxLDL-exposed macrophages via gap junction-mediated cAMP transfer See

Lipid-driven inflammation contributes to the development of atherosclerosis, and regulatory T cells (Tregs) have been proposed to influence macrophage responses to lipid stress. While adoptive Treg transfer has been shown to be safe in clinical studies, the mechanisms by which Tregs modulate...

Recursive Remote State Estimation for Stochastic Complex Networks with Degraded Measurements and Amplify-and-Forward Relays See

This paper is concerned with the remote state estimation problem for stochastic complex networks under the effects of degraded measurements and amplify-and-forward (AF) relays. Three sets of random variables are employed to describe the measurement degradation, the sensor transmission energy, and...

How the rights-based approach can help social work deliver social justice outcomes: Lessons from housing rights activism in Scotland See

Drawing upon the findings of a qualitative case study of a housing rights community development project in Scotland, this article explores how a rights-based approach can help social work deliver social justice outcomes. Social work is often described as a ‘human rights profession’....

Encryption-Decryption-Based Particle Filtering for Stochastic Systems With Randomly Switching Nonlinearities and Sensor Resolutions See

In this paper, the secure particle filtering problem is investigated for a class of stochastic nonlinear systems subject to non-Gaussian noises and randomly switching nonlinearities. As an essential characteristic of real-world sensors, the sensor resolution is incorporated into the measurement m...

Privacy-Preserving Pinning Synchronization for Time-Delay Complex Networks: A Noise Injection Scheme See

This paper is concerned with the privacy-preserving synchronization problem for a class of nonlinear time-delay complex networks under the pinning control approach. To synchronize the network nodes with the unforced target node and protect the private initial states of the underlying network...

A Transfer-Learning-Assisted Role-Differentiated Approach for Industrial Outlier Detection under Label Noise See

In this paper, a novel role-differentiated learning with noisy label (RD-LNL) approach is proposed for industrial outlier detection. A leader-follower-inspired sample selection (LFSS) strategy is introduced to choose relatively "clean samples" for establishing a robust outlier detector against la...